Castle Head Field Centre

Castle Head Field Centre, near to the seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, England is a Georgian house built by the ironmaster John Wilkinson, surrounded by 20 acres (81,000 m2) of grounds. The centre is close to the coastal habitats and landforms of Morecambe Bay as well as the fells of the Lake District National Park.

Activities include camping, building shelters, canoeing, making camp fires, mountain hiking, indoor climbing, toasting marshmallows. Educational activities include visits to Windermere, fieldwork, river studies, and catching animals.

Girls and boys dorms are separated and can have up to eight people with 4 bunk beds in each room and one sink. All the rooms are heated and bed linens are provided. Separate girl and boy toilets and showers. The food includes a two course breakfast, hot and cold, a packed lunch, which you make yourself and a three course meal at dinner time.

The centre includes a common room with table tennis and table football as well as drink-making facilities, and a TV room with a tuck shop, open in the morning. There are two drying rooms with locks on the doors, separated into the different groups and rooms. There is a separate classroom block which also includes the sports hall and climbing wall. There are also qualified tutors and instructors who know everything there is to know about the local area and are very friendly too.

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Coordinates: 54°12′40″N 2°53′19″W / 54.2111°N 2.8886°W